Serum metabolomics study of lupus nephritis based on ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry / 中华风湿病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective The metabolomics methods were applied to discover the serum differences metabolites in patients with lupus nephritis (LN),and to establish the diagnostic model and study the metabolic pathways change due to the interference of LN and explore the pathogenesis of LN.Methods Positive and negative ions mode of ultra high performance liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (HPLS-HRMS) were used to analyze the serum samples of 38 LN patients and 35 healthy controls,respectively.Both univariate and multivariate data analysis were performed with SPSS software (V17.0,Chicago,USA) and SIMCA-P+ package (V12.0,Umetrics,Sweden),respectively.A supervised pattern recognition method,orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA),was employed to study the metabolomics differences between control group and LN patients group.The metabolic pathways were analyzed by Metabo Analyst 3.0.Results LN patients and healthy controls could be well separated by OPLS-DA model Q2 of 0.583.Eighteen compounds (theophylline,oxidized glutathione,capric acid,norvaline,hippuric acid,sphingosine,sorbitol,cortisol,pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid,deoxycholic acid,tryptamine,5-aminolevulinic acid,glucose 6-phosphate,riboflavin,cortisone,taurine,creatinine,glycerophosphocholine) were initially identified as potential serum metabolic markers to distinguish LN patients from healthy people.Alternated metabolism pathways included citrate metabolism,pyrimidine metabolism and amino acid metabolism.Conclusion Through analysis of the metabolic pathways of different metabolites,the significant impact of LN on citrate metabolism,pyrimidine metabolism and amino acid metabolism pathways are identified.Some of the different metabolites are involved in the process of immunization.These results will benefit the early intervention and treatment of LN and the research of the mechanism of pathogenesis.